Gallery: Photos from the West Bank by S'ra DeSantis
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Female Israeli soldiers inspect their M-16s outside of the Israeli army base at Hatzeva.

345 Palestinians have so far been killed in ''''assassination operations'''' - Al-Jazeera

Israel''s Dimona reactor is a closely-guarded secret - Al-Jazeera

Shimon Peres and Ariel Sharon (Islam Online photo)

Israeli soldiers scuffle with Palestinian women trying to stop a bulldozer from entering their land December 18 in the divided West Bank city of Hebron. (Hossam Abu Alan/AFP-Getty)

Two Palestinian women walk amid the rubble of a house demolished by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis. 18 houses were completely destroyed and another 13 partially destroyed during a six-hour Israeli army incursion which began around midnight. (AFP/Said Khatib)

15-year-old Ahmed Emran, left, screams as his twin brother Noor-Eddine is carried to an ambulance after being shot in the head with an Israeli rubber-clad steel bullet at the Balata refugee camp, Nablus, West Bank December 16. The boy was reportedly with a group of youths throwing rocks at troops searching for ''wanted militants'' in the camp. He later died. IPC photo

Olfat Al Qadi is a child who refused to leave her house after it was demolished. She doesn’t know where her parents are so she took a pillow and is now sleeping in the rubble of her house. Click here for Rafah Today

GAZA - December 12, Israeli tanks stationed near the illegitimate Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, west of Khan Younis City, fired guns and tank shells at the Al Nemsawi neighborhood, wounding five Palestinian citizens, including three children and a woman. IPC photo

RAFAH, December 11 -- Six Palestinians were killed and 18 were wounded including six children and two women, mostly in serious conditions, in a fresh Israeli raid on Al Salam neighborhood of Rafah City. Three houses were completely destroyed. Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli soldiers swept through Palestinian houses and vandalized furniture during a raging search campaign, using the dwellers as human shields to facilitate their storming of neighboring houses, making holes in the walls to move from house to the other. IPC photo

Palestinian children standing near a newly-built section of the West Bank separation fence on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Friday. (AP photo)

 
An Israeli soldier opens a gate of the so-called security fence to allow Palestinian school children to cross from what has now become the Israeli side to the West Bank town of Hableh where they attend school. The wall being constructed by the occupation forces fragments Palestinian communities, separating villages from neighboring towns and cities; separating children from their schools, farmers from their land, residents from neighboring hospitals and clinics. - MIFTAH photo

Farming in the West Bank: Palestinian farmers from the village of Jayous, wait in now Israeli-controlled farmland of their village to go to their farms, as other villagers (foreground) were denied entrance by the occupation soldiers. Nearly three-fourths of Jayous'' farmland, or 2,250 out of 3,000 acres, is now on the ''Israeli'' side of the separation wall, cutting them off from the village itself. The residents, along with thousands of other Palestinians along the West Bank must now apply for permits to cross Israeli army controlled barriers to get to their fields and back. - MIFTAH photo

Three Palestinian 13-story apartment buildings are blown up by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip town of al-Zahrah, October 26, 2003 (Photo: Stringer/Israel/Reuters, 2003)

Photo taken at the Wall’s south gate in Jayyus village...*Any person who passes or damages the fence endangers his life* - PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign

A Palestinian boy does his homework with his mother on a street close to their house, which was destroyed, among 25 others, by Israeli bulldozers and tanks, in the Rafah refugee camp, October 1, 2003. (camera - Andrea Comas)

Palestinian children searching for their belongings in the rubble left by Israeli bulldozers in Rafah (Photo: Rafah Today, 2003)

An Israeli soldier prevents a group of Palestinians from entering the West Bank town of Hebron near the village of Halhul Oct 8, due to complete closure in the Hebron area. (excerpt of AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi - click here for full photo)

October 7: Palestinain youths throw stones at Israeli tanks storming the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. Soldiers invaded the city, slapping a blanket curfew on the population for the third consecutive day. Al-Jazeera photo

A Palestinian boy runs ahead of an Israeli army tank in yet another incursion in the Palestinian West Bank. IPC photo

October 4: An 18-month-old Palestinian child, Mostafa Al-Badrasawi, died Saturday of wounds he sustained Thursday after being shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip city of Khan-Younis. IPC photo

The Palestinians have launched an appeal over the ''fence''. AP photo

 
         
         
 

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